Overuse Of Ellipsis...Irritating?...Or...Elucidating!!

Elucidating, of course. Quotation marks are merely tools of the artist and are to be used...or not...as the artist sees fit. It helps to convey the
proper inflection...to enable you to hear it in the way that I said it...with the proper tones and nuances, if you will.
And for all of you who said "irritating"...well.......

a reply to: MissSmartypants
I use it mainly when something is being left out, like the end of a sentence or the middle of a quotation. I think that's what it's for.
It can be overdone. In "The real life of Sebastian Knight" (Nabokov), the narrator is very disparaging about the biography written by a Mr. Goodman,
and comments on his habit of "clicking three dots" at every other sentence.

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